Back when Steve Largent, the Hall of Fame wide receiver, was playing football for the Seattle Seahawks, he was hired to give inspirational talks to the employees of Cellular One, a mobile phone company. The year was 1984. Cellphones were still...

The independent candidate for governor in Oklahoma, United States Attorney Gary Richardson, released a 30-second commercial last week featuring the collapse of the World Trade Center. The advertisement uses part of the Alan Jackson song ''Where Were...

Former Representative Steve Largent won the Republican primary in the race to succeed Gov. Frank Keating, a Republican, who is being forced from office by term limits. The Democratic race was headed to a runoff between a millionaire businessman,...

Steve Largent, the former football star and Republican congressman, officially began his campaign for governor this week. Mr. Largent, who resigned his seat in Congress this year, began touring the state in an effort to succeed Gov. Frank Keating, a...

June 12, 2002, Wednesday

State Representative John Sullivan, a Republican, defeated a former school board member in a special election to replace Representative Steve Largent, who is stepping down to run for governor. Mr. Sullivan beat Doug Dodd, a Democrat, 54 percent to 44...

January 9, 2002, Wednesday

Cathy Keating, the wife of Gov. Frank Keating, dropped her campaign to succeed Representative Steve Largent, a Republican, saying that she wanted to avoid a runoff that could be harmful to the Republican Party. In a party primary on Tuesday, Ms....

The file-swapping services that have grown in popularity as Napster has waned can be used to trade pornography as well as music, presenting a new environment in which minors can be exposed to hard-core photographs and even videos, two members of...

A new poll shows that Cathy Keating, the wife of Gov. Frank Keating, is the early leader for the Republican nomination for a Congressional seat from Tulsa. The poll, commissioned by The Tulsa World, showed Ms. Keating as the choice of 34 percent...

Representative Steve Largent, a fourth-term Republican conservative, made it official: He will give up his House seat on Nov. 29 to run for governor next year. His district, centered in Tulsa, is heavily Republican, and so his departure poses little...